by Emil Guillermo

San Francisco Chronicle

01/18/05

If international politics were like one big game of Texas hold'em, then this can be said about U.S. Iraq policy: President Bush didn't have a hand. But he sure bet on it like he held the best cards in the hole -- two aces, A-A, pocket rockets. Bush sent a few rockets and U.S. troops to fight his war. But now his hand has been exposed. And he had nothing. Just a costly flop of a war. What did we lose? Not chips. At last count, nearly 1,400 U.S. military personnel have been killed; another 10,000 have come home wounded. Bush's justification for war -- that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- was just a stone-cold bluff. ... Last week, with a whimper ... officials announced that the search for the elusive WMD is officially over. You'll recall Bush said Saddam Hussein had them, gosh durn it, and he acted as if Saddam did...

http://tinyurl.com/5hee7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

01/19/05

So now we have the ultimate irony: the U.S. government wants to create terrorist groups in the name of the 'war on terrorism.' Just as the 'War on Poverty' created more poverty, and the 'War on Drugs' created more drug users and enriched drug dealers, so our commanding officers in the War on Terrorism (in U.S. government parlance they call it the Global War on Terrorism, or GWOT) are now yearning to be in the business of creating more terrorism. Rummy wants to ride with the 'bad boys,' but he doesn't want the American people -- the taxpayers -- to know about it...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4474


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Military officials and mental health providers predict that up to 30 percent of returning soldiers will require psychiatric services -- a number not seen since the end of the Vietnam War." Stephen Robinson, a 20-year Army veteran who is now executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, an advocacy group, said: "I know for a fact that the military health care system is ill prepared to deal with the psychological impact of war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2693

Revisionist history: Original rationale for invasion was groundless

Here's the bottom line, according to the Register-Guard Editorial Board: "At some point, Bush may run out of justifications for what increasingly appears to be an unjustifiable war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2692

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Informant: ItalysBadBoy

Rep. Ron Paul : Conscription – The Terrible Price of War:

The ultimate cost of war is almost always the loss of liberty. True defensive wars and revolutionary wars against tyrants may preserve or establish a free society, as did our war against the British. But these wars are rare. Most wars are unnecessary, dangerous, and cause senseless suffering with little being gained. - The current war in which we find ourselves clearly qualifies as one of those unnecessary and dangerous wars.

http://207.44.245.159/article7728.htm

Experts say up to 30% may need psychiatric care...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/17/MNG24ARHTU1.DTL
http://snipurl.com/c44t


From Information Clearing House

"According to the Geneva Conventions and The Hague, the occupying force has no authority to change the laws of the occupied country.''

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/611/611p17.htm


From Information Clearing House

Now that the Bush administration has finally stopped wasting millions of tax dollars each month on the futile search for the weapons of mass destruction it promised would be found in Iraq, it is time for an accounting.

http://207.44.245.159/article7731.htm

Clearly, Ms. Rice was shown to be a liar and an immoral person — not caring about those who have been killed in this war, this war that was clearly built on lies.

http://207.44.245.159/icle7747.htm